Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary ideas by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o June 1, 2025 Arts/Books/Culture/Here and Now/Music/On Trend/Places/Review Ngugi Wa Thiong’o 1938-2025. The world lost a great man in Prof. Ngugi Wa Thiong’o. Thanks for the beautiful memories, with the More
A New New Me (A novel) by Helen Oyeyemi May 17, 2025 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Music/On Trend/Review ABOUT A NEW NEW ME From the award-winning, bestselling “literary pied piper” (The New York Times) who brought us Boy, Snow, Bird More
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Broken-Hearted by Ben Okri April 10, 2025 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Music/On Trend/Review Summary: In this modern fable with the impish magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a masked ball makes two upper-class British couples More
Theft: A Novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature) March 5, 2025 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Music/On Trend/Review “In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change.” Synopsis: More
Ballerina February 1, 2025 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Music/Places/Review by Patrick Modiano. Translated by Mark Polizzotti “A critically acclaimed #1 bestseller in France—a novel of art, desire, and time lost and More
Mother River by Can Xue (Author), Karen Gernant (Translator), Chen Zeping (Translator) January 8, 2025 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Music/Review Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award: “If China has one possibility of a Nobel laureate it is Can Xue.”—Susan Sontag: More
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck by Dionne Brand December 6, 2024 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Inspirations/Music/On Trend/Review One of Literary Hub’s most anticipated books of 2024 Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped More
Miles Davis November 9, 2024 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Inspirations/Music/On Trend/Review Miles Davis: “Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles Davis was one of the most important and influential musicians in the world.’ More
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates October 5, 2024 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/Here and Now/Music/On Trend/Review The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore More
Mina’s Matchbox, a novel by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Synder September 1, 2024 Arts/Books/Culture/Galleries/On Trend/Review Mina’s Matchbox (is) surreal, beautiful, gorgeous, delicate, elegant, thought-provoking…and still on my mind after reading the book. Funmi Tofowomo, Editor, Cafeafricana.com More